Classroom+Techniques

Important for a therapist to:

 * 1) Bring enthusiasm to the classroom.
 * 2) Establish a comfort level with clients.
 * 3)  Create an effective and appropriate presentation of content.
 * 4) Follow the book while not testing from the book.
 * 5) likewise with powerpoints
 * 6) Motivate clients to be successful
 * 7) Stimulate clients to think. (don't just aim to achieve the skills)
 * 8) Clothes >robes, 3 piece suit, sport coat/tie, no tie more casual, sweater & long sleeve button-up shirt.
 * 9) Start at a high formality and then get looser (reinforcement schedule)
 * 10) Provide the students with what they need to succeed. (Bring hard copy).
 * 11) View your clients as a communicator first.
 * 12) Try to make a change in their everyday life so that hey know it is important.
 * 13) Change activity every 15-20 min to help them stay focused.
 * 14) Showing the polar ends of the same class, cannot please all the students all the time
 * 15) Do not assume common sense
 * 16) Know your environment as well as your population
 * 17) what is in the best influence of the client now
 * 18) Use their strengths to help compensate for their weaknesses
 * 19) Give immediate feedback to clients.
 * 20) There is a difference between friendship and friendly: don't get emotionally involved with clients.
 * 21) The client will lead you to where their therapy needs to go.
 * 22) Both you and the client bring their world view to therapy every day.
 * 23) connect at the basic human level.
 * 24) Let their (the client's) story be heard.
 * 25) Learn the client's name (first and last).
 * 26) People are coming to you out of weakness, not out of strength.
 * 27) Conversational dyad (rarely split 50/50, one person has the upper hand even if it's slight)
 * 28) For best group outcomes, come in with positive expectations.

 Client needs to be:

 * 1)  A pro-active learner

Idioms:
1. Over my dead body. 2. Out like a light. 3. Crack the door. 4. My eyes are bigger than my stomach. 5. It's raining cats and dogs. 6. Put a lid on it. 7. On a roll. 8. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.